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15.
Stallion Updates
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04/06/2002 |
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King Of Kings; Jeune; Langfuhr; Jade Hunter; Volksraad; Barathea; Oarsman; Canadian Silver; Ashkalani.
* KENTUCKY-based shuttle sire King Of Kings produced his first northern hemisphere winner when the Ed Dunlop trained colt Dharkan won at Southwell in England on June 5.
A $US175,000 yearling, Dharkan was bred in Kentucky and hails from the family of G1 heroines Skimming, Contredance and Wince.
King Of Kings has already sired seven individual winners in the southern hemisphere this season, including four in the last week of May.
The son of Sadler's Wells had only six starts for three stakes wins including the G1 National Stakes as twoi and the G1 2000 Guineas at Newmarket at three. He was retired after suffering an injury in the Epsom Derby.
* MELBOURNE Cup winner Jeune has produced an impressive fifteen individual winners since since May 1.
Jeune, who is standing at Lindsay Park in South Australia for a service fee of $10,000 plus GST, has a winner to runners ratio of 60 percent with only his third crop of racing age and is second only to Flying Spur on the leading third Season Sires list by number of wins
His winners have been showing the same versatility as their sire, who was a four-time Group One winner and winner of 10 races from 1200m to 3200m including the Melbourne Cup and C.F Orr Stakes (1400m) at Caulfield in course record time where he beat top sprinters Hurricane Sky and Schillaci.
* THE month of May was a fabulous mix of success for Vinery Australia’s high profile shuttle sire Langfuhr.
The month produced stakes horses, multiple allowance winners and a slew of maiden winners and record setters for in both hemispheres for the G1-winning son of Danzig.
In the northern hemisphere, where Langfuhr is a top five second crop sire, he had six winners in the US and Ireland, a G3 placegetter and rounded out by Kingmkaer becoming his third stakes winner and sixth stakes horse from his first crop on May 26 when he won the Marco Bay Stakes at Calder.
In the southern hemisphere, Langfuhr’s first crop of Australian-bred two-year-olds yielded two course record breakers and six maiden winners.
* JADE Hunter, the former Woodlands Stud shuttle sire who has been standing in Kentucky, is heading to South America.
Hill ’n’ Dale Farms, where he currently stands for $US10,000, is sending the 18-year-old son of Mr Prospector out of the Pharly mare Jadana to stand the next southern hemisphere season in Argentina.
The winner of six races including the G1 Gulfstream Park Handicap, Jade Hunter has sired 32 stakes winners including current US female star Azeri, winner of three successive G1 races this year.
His other notable US winners form his 11 crops of racing age include Yagli, Stuka, and Diazo.
Jade Hunter is no stranger to the international stud scene. He stood one season in New Zealand in 1989 and three years at
Woodlands Stud in the NSW Hunter Valley from 1995 to 1997. In between he went to Japan in 1996 for one season at the Breeders Stallion Station.
* THE family of New Zealand’s current leading sire Volksraad is in the spotlight in Canada following the win of the Barathea mare Siringas in the G2I Nassau Stakes at Woodbine.
The second dam of Siringas is Celtic Assembly, who is also the dam of Volksraad, the Green Destert stallion who is on target to post his first New Zealand general sires premiership this season.
Volksraad is enjoying a stellar season as he is New Zealand’s leading sire by stake-earnings, has been represented by more stakes-winners than any other sire, more winners than any other sire and the winners of more races than any other sire.
He has had 15 stakes-performed horses in the 2001-2002 season and his total number of stakes winners is now 20 including six individual G1 winners.
* BARATHEA, the “forgotten” son of Sadler’s Wells since his departure from srive in Australia, posted a trans-Atlantic double in the space of 24 hours as the win by Siringas in the Nassau Stakes was followed by the success in Ireland of Rag
Top in the Swordlestown Stud Sprint Stakes at Naas – the richest Listed two-year-old fillies race in Europe.
* A new Danehill sire worthy of attention is Oarsman, an addition to the roster at Queensland’s Raheen Stud.
Brian Russell reports that Oarsman is from an imported mare who goes back to a sister to Nasrullah and a three-quarter sister to Royal Charger.
Russell points out that Oarsman possess a rich female side to his pedigree as his first four dams are by Great Nephew, Habitat, Graustark and Swaps.
Oarsman was trained by Bill Mitchell but only raced three times.
He is half-brother to three European winners, one of which won nine races including stakes events and another which scored on seven occasions.
His dam Rowa was third in the Pretty Polly Stakes at Newmarket and is a sister to high grade European performers Roussalka and Our Home and a half-sister to Oh So Sharp, the champion UK filly of 1985 who won the 1000 Guineas, Oaks and St Leger and finished second in the King George VI & Queen Elizabeth Stakes at Royal Ascot.
Oarsman’s family includes young sires Shovhog, Danewin and Commands.
Raheen Stud will also stand the new Octagonal sire Anglia, a three-quarter brother to Dr Grace, along with Epsom Handicap and QTC Derby winner Dodge and the veteran sire Crown Jester in 2002.
* UNBEATEN Canadian Silver three-year-old Cariboo is a special horse for his trainer Tim Martin.
Cariboo, who returned to racing with an excellent win at Rosehill on June 1 was bred by Martin from his Kinski mare Winitski.
He sent Winitski, to Canadian Silver at Queensland’s historic Lyndhurst Stud at Warwick, with Cariboo being one of more than
120 winners produced by the imported sire.
His other notable winners have included Make Mine Magic and Silver Laddie.
Canadian Silver was one of a small number of runners got in Canada by the Mr Prospector sire Geiger Counter before he became a big success at stud in Australia.
Canadian Silver won 11 races from five to seven furlongs including five stakes events and was named Canada’s champion sprinter three times.
* SHUTTLE sire Ashkalani produced a notable Group winner in England when his four-year-old Potemkin won the G3 Brigadier Gerard Stakes at Sandown on June 4.
Potemkin was bred in Ireland out of the Posse mare Ploy and is a half brother to Italian 2000 Guineas winner Poliuto
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